When Microsoft tried to add networky functions to Windows, Noorda began to hate. He focused all his energies on quashing Microsoft like the pretentious upstart it was.
That didn't work too well. The board pushed Noorda out; Novell wandered around for a while , employing Eric Schmidt for a while before he found a niche at Google. Novell helped sue Microsoft for being an evil monopoly and break its power forever. Novell found work doing some things with Linux ; it moved East.
In March a hedge fund tried to buy it. Novell said no. VMware tried to buy it. Today Novell announced it was allowing itself to be bought, by a trio of private-equity companies to provide the funding and perhaps the least sexy company in the computer industry as a front.
It's hard to know what benefit Attachmate -- which makes invisible systems software found only so deep in the data center even dedicated geeks fear to go there. More Insider Sign Out. Sign In Register. Sign Out Sign In Register. Latest Insider. That's why we have selected Novell as our preferred Linux partner to support our Linux infrastructure going forward," O'Neill says. But Boycott Novell's Schestowitz argues that the fruits of the agreement are not so benevolent and that customers have voted with their feet and avoided Novell.
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